Junior Software Engineer

Job Type

Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

Position: Junior Software Engineer (Band 1)

Reporting to: Head of Software Engineering

Location: Lisbon - Hybrid

Introduction: We are looking for a motivated Graduate Software Engineer to join our London Market Software Engineering team. This role focuses on supporting our Innovation squads in creating new “Cloud First” solutions that add value to the business. We are adopting a cloud-first approach (Azure) for new systems and transforming our legacy applications to enhance growth and reliability. This opportunity is perfect for a Graduate in an IT discipline with a year in industry or an internship alongside this. Any experience in IT upto 18 months will be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and your squad to deliver value.
• Support engineers within your squad with your expertise and opinions to drive forward delivery.
• Support requirements gathering.
• Ensure code is peer-reviewed, unit tested, and delivered through automated pipelines to live environments.
• Ensure your code is secure.
  
  
  

Must Have Skills

• Proficiency in C#.
• Knowledge with CI/CD Pipelines.
• Knowledge of Source Control.
• Understanding of unit testing.
• Knowledge of JSON and SQL.
• A degree in a technical discipline.
  
  
  

Tech Stack

• .Net
• Azure Functions
• Azure SQL Db
• Azure Storage
• Azure APIM
• Azure Service Bus (topics and queues)
• Blazor
• Angular/AngularJS
• Service Fabric (on-prem)
• Service Bus (on-prem)
• SQL (on-prem)
• WPF (on-prem)
  
  
  

Training and Support: Training and support will be provided for areas of the tech stack that you aren’t familiar with. If you have the “must have” skills, we would love to talk about your future career within our business.

Our Culture: At Hiscox, we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We offer hybrid working to encourage a healthy work-life balance. The successful candidate for this role will be in the office three days a week, providing the best of both worlds: structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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